Stability and bifurcation analysis in the delay-coupled nonlinear oscillators

Abstract

This paper investigates the dynamical behavior of two oscillators with nonlinearity terms, which are coupled with finite delay parameters. Each oscillator is a general class of second-order nonlinear delay-differential equations. The system of delay differential equations is analyzed by reducing the delay equations to a system of ordinary differential equations on a finite-dimensional center manifold, the corresponding to an infinite-dimensional phase space. In addition, the characteristic equation for the linear stability of the trivial equilibrium is completely analyzed and the stability region is illustrated in the parameters space. Our analysis reveals necessary coefficients of the reduced vector field on the center manifold for studying the bifurcations of the trivial equilibrium such as transcritical, pitchfork, and Hopf bifurcation. Finally, we consider the delay-coupled van der Pol equations.